{"product_id":"shadows-and-cypress-southern-ghost-stories-paperback","title":"Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bewitching convocation of Dixie's most frightening ghost tales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is a Dixie s ance that summons ghost tales from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollecting more than a dozen stories from each state, this book channels the South's entire panorama of creepy locales into one volume. The limestone caves of Kentucky, the swamps of Louisiana and Florida, the pine hills and hollows of Appalachia, and the plains of Texas -- these are perfect haunts for a host of narratives about visitors from the spirit world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe many cultures that converged in the American South enriched the region's ghost stories. \u003cem\u003eShadows and Cypress\u003c\/em\u003e taps African American, French, Hispanic, and Scotch-Irish storytelling traditions to capture the distinctive signatures that each has left on ghostlore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the region, the southern ghost story is hardly a curio from the crypt. It's still alive and well. Folklorist Alan Brown draws stories from crannies as contemporary as the college dormitory or cars parked on a lover's lane. To give the reader the unique experience of hearing a classic ghost story told, Brown presents these tales exactly as they were recorded in his field research or as archived in the trove of the WPA oral collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wide variety of spectres found only in this region arise in \u003cem\u003eShadows and Cypress\u003c\/em\u003e. The \"fillet\" and \"loogaru\" from Louisiana, \"plat-eye\" from South Carolina, and \"haints\" from across Dixie are among the creatures bumping in the night. Beginning with the Revolutionary War and continuing to present day, this generous gathering of tales will chill and delight readers and long haunt shelves as a comprehensive sourcebook of the region's supernatural allure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Brown is a professor of English at the University of West Alabama. He has published several books, including \u003cem\u003eDim Roads and Dark Nights\u003c\/em\u003e (1993) and \u003cem\u003eThe Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore\u003c\/em\u003e (1996).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bewitching convocation of Dixie's most frightening ghost tales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.94 x 5.87 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426726035634,"sku":"9781578062713","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/8c91dbb8c3c791d6446526e53060a7ff.webp?v=1778516668","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/shadows-and-cypress-southern-ghost-stories-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}